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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens Alejandro86, Coje_He, OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com Nov 5, with the arrival of Linux 6. 7, mainstream Linux cores will stop supporting Intel Itanium (IA-64) processors.

In fact, Linux's support for Itanium has been declining in recent years, with no active users and no active major contributors to maintain and make major improvements to Itanium code.

Linux 6.6, which will be released this year, is a long-term supported (LTS) kernel version, so Itanium code will still be supported. Recently, however, it has been proposed to delete Itanium in Linux 6.7and it has been accepted.

Since the IA-64 kernel code has not been maintained for a long time, and no one wants to maintain it in the future, Linux 6.7 has removed 65000 lines of code.

Asm-generic pull has now cleared all IA-64 architecture support, contributing to its "deserved retirement". So, if you need to use IA-64 hardware, you should stick to Linux 6.6 LTS.

CTOnews.com popular science: IA-64, the Intel Anton architecture, is the instruction set architecture (ISA) used by Intel's 64-bit Anton series processors. This basic set of ISA specifications originated from Hewlett-Packard and was subsequently implemented by Intel in cooperation with it.

IA is the abbreviation of Intel architecture Intel Architecture, 64 refers to 64-bit system. CPU that uses this architecture, including Itanium and Itanium 2. This architecture is not compatible with x86 and x86-64, and the system and software need to use a dedicated version of IA-64.

The first Anton processor, codenamed Merced, was released in 2001. As of 2008, Anton ranked fourth among all deployed enterprises and systems, second only to x86-64 power and SPARC.

The latest Itanium processor is the Itanium 9700 "Kitson" processor released in 2017, which is based on 32nm technology. This processor is very similar to the Itanium 9500 "Poulson" processor released in 2012.

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